Feeling Overwhelmed? Tackling Unpopular Tasks
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Feeling Overwhelmed?
Tackling Unpopular Tasks

By Vicki Wrona, PMP The end of a calendar or fiscal year often leaves us feeling overwhelmed, but those feelings are not limited to that time of year. As Project Managers or managers in general, we are often juggling many things and have…
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Is It Time for PMI to Change….or the Marketplace?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: There are certain terms that we all run into which are so frequently mis-used that we wonder whether it makes sense to keep fighting to define the “real” term or just give in to market forces and call something by…
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Even Hotels Understand Constraints –
Why Can’t My Management Team?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: One of the benefits of enrolling in a hotel program is being able to specify preferences. Recently, after making my hotel reservation, I reviewed the options presented to me. What I found was this: To better accommodate…
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A Matter of Balance – Management vs. Technical Role

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Why do organizations constantly rely on their PMs to also perform key technical work on a project? Several reasons. One is reality. We are doing more with less now, and the reality is that we may not have the personnel…
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Jargon – Confused?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Project Managers are notorious for it. On top of business jargon we add our own unique language and terms. Writers on Star Trek call it technobabble, we can call ours PM-speak. We have our own language and acronyms, just…
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The Perfect Mistake

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: We’ve all made mistakes, and we’ve all witnessed both good and bad examples of how to react to those mistakes — sometimes on a very public stage. Professionally, what can we learn from these? First, let’s discuss…